The art style is what makes this game look good more than the graphics.

Its kind of a mix I think: The art style is great, but the hardware behind it only enhances the style of the game. I sooooooooo am buying this game when it comes out. I wish I had an HDTV, as what I heard is that TB + HD = best visuals ever.

My girlfriend is excited about playing 2p co-op on this game all the way through :)

 Are you certain that it is going to be 2p co-op all the way through?  If so, do you know more details?  As the "team" wanders the trusty bell world, is one person controlling the party or do the two move independently?

This has 2 player co-op, too???

4 player co-op according to IGN.

Basically, you can assign the party members to various controllers. When it goes into a battle, since the battles are A-RPG fare, each controler controls their individual character's movements and controls. So that way, it's inclusive of everyone that wants to play, but I do believe 1p still controls the movement, and action outside of the battle, but that's just my idea of it though.

Quick blurb about sales:

Over on the "how is Trusty Bell / NGS" post on NeoGaf, a Taiwaneese poster talked about attempting to obtain a copy of TB in Taiwan.

Appearently, he called one of the biggest stores yesterday (6/14), and they had already sold out their initial shipment of 200 copies. He said it was very similar to the sales that Blue Dragon had when it launched there.

I'm not going to comment on this, but I am, however, happy to hear atleast 1 store had a ton of copies, and they sold out. I hope that Namco, should TB sell out or near sell-out, re-supply the chain quickly. If indeed TB sold out, I would hope they would have another 30,000 copies ready to go for the 2nd shipment or so.